No raid boss is as tough or has the power to set my stress level up as hearing the words “can you switch to healing?”

I might never beat the Healing Boss, but I got some sound healing advice for the fight and by the end I wasn’t so stressed out anymore.

Doesn’t mean I’m any good at it – I’m not that deluded. Getting familiar with the fight and anticipating what’s coming made a big difference for a couple of things.

Mana.

Ugh. Now, I know I don’t have proper healing gear so my spirit level is low. As Shadow I don’t really have to think about mana and if I do get low there is always Disperse if SF isn’t up.

Disc? Well, I still have SF and I have some spells that will give me mana-reduced or “free” spells and a few mechanics that will give extra healing when they kick in – if I remember to use them.

Yeah…I would be down to less than half mana at the first phase before I knew the fight well enough to start anticipating what I would need and making sure I had the mana to do it.

Like Barrier…yeah…couldn’t use it when I needed it the first time or two because I didn’t manage my mana and didn’t have any.

I still missed a lot, over-healed like a boss and made a bunch of other mistakes but if I did one thing right it was making sure I had just enough mana for that Barrier for the last few attempts.

Healing…I could actually get to like it.

Safety Tip: If you happen to get Arcane Resonance on you ummm…run away from the raid.

On the Alliance side, I finally made a farming “friend”, got some chickens and a straw hat.

Farm Chickens and Straw Hat

Less dailies to do! Now I have more time to do dailies on my Horde priest and get her caught up.

I still can’t remember why I need to plant all those carrots…

Update: I got my PvP ring back. I used the Blizzard Recovery form and sure enough! There were both my rings I vendored right at the top of the list. When I logged in it was in my mailbox…CoD of course.